One's devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too
entangled in the following six activities:

eating more than necessary or collecting more funds than required;

overendavouring for mundance things that are very difficult to obtain;

talking unnecessarily about mundance subject matters;

practising the scriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of
following them and not for the sake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the
rules and regulations of the scriptures and working independently or
whimsically;

associated with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in
Krishna Consciousness; and